It’s worth a nickel

today, paul and i celebrate seven years together.

it’s kind of an amazing thing … i love him so much, more today than ever before, and will love him more still tomorrow.

we’ve had great times, good times, and not-so-good times, but we’ve survived them all. we’ve built a wonderful life together for which i’m grateful every single day.

i’ve never done anything else in my life for this long … i’m really beginning to grasp and appreciate the concept of a lifelong commitment.

people may talk about this whole “seven-year itch” thing, but i’m just not itchy.

although i’m still half asleep, and i’ve barely started my coffee this morning, i’m overdue for an update here. after a very full and fulfilling weekend … here goes!

on saturday paul and i drove down to long island. it’s never a fun drive. never. but on this particular saturday, we were looking forward to celebrating a wedding. paul’s uncle al married his girlfriend linda. now, we love linda. she is as sweet as can be, and from what paul says, she’s been an incredibly good force in uncle al’s life.

lynn and i did manage to drag paul out onto the dance floor for a little while. he’s so cute, but he just doesn’t like to dance until he’s … ahem … sufficiently lowered his inhibitions. i think the highlight of the afternoon for most people would have been lynn and me dancing to don’t cha by the pussycat dolls. it was a good time … and i was sober!

on sunday, the celebrations continued … paul and i have been together for six years. ah, it seems like only yesterday … and we’ve never had a fight! (yeah right!) in typical fashion, at least lately, we started out our morning at the gym. but afterwards, we diverted from our normal sunday routine.

paul and i have both wanted to go to dia:beacon for a while now, and yesterday we finally did! it was an incredible experience … the art there is on such a huge scale that it encourages you to really wander among the pieces and explore, expressing your curiosity along the way. on our way home, we wandered a bit on main street in beacon, which is really starting to have something of a renaissance. (at least on that one block.) i recommend stopping at hudson beach glass in the old firehouse if you like to see blown glass items … very cool.

since there aren’t any movies out in the theaters that we’re burning to see, we stopped by the video store on the way home. we ended up with sideways and kinsey, and watched both. despite having heard excellent reviews from intelligent people about sideways, we didn’t love it. it progressed very slowly, and i was of course horrified by the lack of explicit closure. (no real spoilers there.) kinsey, on the other hand, was excellent. it’s amazing to realize how long ago that work was done … and yet how little progress society has made in the intervening years. society still believes it can dictate what is normal and what isn’t, and i frankly object. in any case, run, don’t walk, to see it if you haven’t already.